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...million, first weekend 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $28.5 million; $120.6 million, second week 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $24.2 million; $339.2 million, second week 4. Public Enemies, $14.1 million; $66.5 million, second week 5. The Proposal, $10.5 million; $113.8 million, fourth week 6. The Hangover, $9.3 million; $222.4 million, sixth week 7. I Love You, Beth Cooper, $5 million, first weekend 8. Up, $4.7 million; $273.8 million; seventh week 9. My Sister's Keeper, $4.2 million; $35.8 million, third week 10. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, $1.6 million; $61.5 million, fifth week...
...Soon enough, there was no pain at all. And his lower back and hands, which ached before, were also now pain-free. So I was curious last year, when at age 73 he came in and told me he was ready for a hip replacement. "It's just so stiff" is all he would say. He certainly had the limp, the trouble with stairs and the slow rise from a chair that you see in folks with hip arthritis. His X-ray showed bone-on-bone erosion and plenty of spurring; his examination showed the profound loss of motion...
Thrilling, too, is the marvelously weird Creation of the Cosmic Ocean and the Elements series, in which dreadlocked and bejeweled holy men ride atop fish and snakes. Pulsating with rhythmic semicircular waves - the Cosmic Oceans of their title - the paintings have a near-hypnotic effect. "People of a certain age," says Blurton, smiling, "have described them as 'trippy.'" Those eager to trance out amid the swirls of gold, gray and pink can sit and do so, as the curators have created a small, triangular, chapel-like space with the paintings, a knowing nod to the Rothko Chapel, the contemplation space...
...differentiate Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks. In reaction, the generation that grew up during the horror of the war is boldly reclaiming the religious identity for which they were victimized. At the other end of the spectrum is Iran, where religious observance is declining in the generation that came of age under the Islamic Republic. The young there are in turn disillusioned with the state-sponsored religious identity that has failed to resolve their basic problems. It will be interesting to see if Bosnia's Muslims can strike the right balance between personal piety and secular solutions to temporal concerns. Shehzad...
...know a woman--let's call her "my wife"--who swears by Spanx, special "body shaping" undergarments that magically hide her modest bulges. These New Age girdles are hugely popular with many women, but Spanx for dudes? I'd rather get a stomach staple. (See pictures of the latest mancessories...